Bug 51891 - finger man page typo
Summary: finger man page typo
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: finger
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Phil Knirsch
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-08-16 16:11 UTC by E. Blues
Modified: 2015-03-05 01:09 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2001-08-22 16:17:14 UTC
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Description E. Blues 2001-08-16 16:11:43 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686)

Description of problem:
The man page for finger (1) says (for ~/.nofinger):
This generally means that the home directory containing the file must have
the other-users-execute bit set (o+w).

Of course, that should say (o+x).  If users accidentally use o+w, they'll
have security problems.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man finger


Actual Results:  see description

Expected Results:  see description

Additional info:
Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2002-01-24 12:45:56 UTC 
Fixed in latest version 0.17-11 available soon via rawhide.

Read ya, Phil
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